The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of moving forward and not dwelling on the past.
Guillermo Del Toro's quote about the butterfly emphasizes the process of transformation and growth, suggesting that once one evolves from a previous state, it is vital to embrace the new self without longing for what was left behind. The butterfly serves as a metaphor for personal change, encouraging individuals to let go of their past identities and to focus on the journey ahead.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
If we can forgive whatβs been done to us... If we can forgive what weβve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.
One has to change one's life. Maybe this is easier for people who have nothing to do than for those who have something to do.
Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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